Romeo says of Juliet, "It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!" What figure of speech is this line built on?

Romeo goes on: "Arise fair sun and kill the envious moon, / Who is already sick and pale with grief". Which device does that second line rest on?

Romeo describes love: "O heavy lightness! serious vanity! ... Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!" What device is he piling up?

Juliet, told who Romeo is, says, "My only love sprung from my only hate!" What device does the line turn on?

Macbeth asks, "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?" What figure of speech is the question built on?

The witches in Macbeth chant, "Fair is foul, and foul is fair". What device is the line built on?

In Macbeth, Donalbain warns, "There's daggers in men's smiles". Which device is at work?

Macbeth says, "Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day". What device do these lines use?

Stabbed, Mercutio says of his wound, "'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door, but 'tis enough". What device is he using?

Frost's "Mending Wall" opens, "Something there is that doesn't love a wall". What device does the line use?

In "Mending Wall" Frost watches his neighbor "Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top / In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed." What device is this?

In Julius Caesar, Cassius says Caesar "doth bestride the narrow world / Like a Colossus". What figure of speech is this?

Emily Dickinson writes, "A narrow wind complains all day / How some one treated him". What device do these lines use?

In Frost's "Birches" the fallen ice leaves "Such heaps of broken glass to sweep away / You'd think the inner dome of heaven had fallen." What device closes the passage?

Keats opens "To Autumn": "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless". What device is this?

Macbeth tells his wife, "O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" What device is the line built on?

Carl Sandburg's "Fog" opens, "The fog comes / on little cat feet." What does the comparison tell the reader about the fog?

Macbeth hears a voice praise "Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care". What does this comparison say sleep does?

Dunbar writes, "I know why the caged bird sings ... It is not a carol of joy or glee, / But a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core". What does the song stand for?

In Frost's "Birches" the speaker says, "It's when I'm weary of considerations, / And life is too much like a pathless wood". What does the comparison say about his life?

Romeo says of Juliet, "It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night / As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear". What does the comparison emphasize?

Dickinson writes, "The sky is low, the clouds are mean, / A travelling flake of snow / Across a barn or through a rut / Debates if it will go." What effect does the snowflake's debate create?

Lady Macbeth tells her husband, "look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't." What is she telling him to do?

Whitman's poem opens, "O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, / The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won". What does the finished voyage stand for?

Dickinson writes, "Hope is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul, / And sings the tune without the words, / And never stops at all". What does the comparison say about hope?

Lady Macbeth says, "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters." What is she telling Macbeth about his face?

Lady Macbeth says her husband's nature "is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way". What is she saying about him?

Frost's speaker says, "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, / And sorry I could not travel both / And be one traveler, long I stood". What does the fork in the road stand for?

Which sentence uses personification?

Which sentence uses a simile?

Which sentence uses a metaphor?

Which sentence uses hyperbole?

Which sentence uses understatement?

Which sentence uses an oxymoron?

Which sentence uses an idiom?

Which sentence uses a paradox?

Which sentence contains an extended metaphor?

Which sentence describes the storm with a metaphor rather than a simile?

Three of these sentences are figurative. Which one is meant literally?

Only one of these sentences means what it says. Which one?

Three of these sentences use figurative language. Which one is literal?

Which sentence about the dog is meant literally?

Three of these describe the classroom figuratively. Which one describes it literally?

Only one of these sentences about the river is literal. Which one?

Macbeth says, "Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, / And then is heard no more". What two things does the comparison hold together?

Dunbar writes, "We wear the mask that grins and lies, / It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes ... With torn and bleeding hearts we smile". What does the comparison hold together?

Dickinson writes, "I like to see it lap the miles, / And lick the valleys up, / And stop to feed itself at tanks; / And then, prodigious, step / Around a pile of mountains". What is the train compared to?

In Frost's "Birches" the bent trunks trail "their leaves on the ground / Like girls on hands and knees that throw their hair / Before them over their heads to dry in the sun." What two things are joined?

Dickinson writes, "There is no frigate like a book / To take us lands away, / Nor any coursers like a page / Of prancing poetry." What is a book compared to?

Dickinson writes of a snake, "A narrow fellow in the grass / Occasionally rides ... The grass divides as with a comb, / A spotted shaft is seen". What does the comparison hold together?